نگیرد لالہ و گل رنگ و بویمدرون سینہ ام مرد آرزویمغم پنہان بحرف اندر نگجنداگر گنجد چہ گویم با کہ گویم

English translation

The ‘rose and poppy’* lack my ‘scent and shade.** All yearnings have died in a bosom fade.
In words, the grief hidden cannot contain; if so, what to say, to whom to explain?
* An allusion, to members of his race.
**It means my message. In his last days this thought was always pinching his heart that his nation treats him only as a poet. As such she is paying no attention to his message. As a last resort this lover of the Prophet is making this appeal to the Holy Prophet, which no doubt is the Qibla and Kaa’ba of each Muslim, against a background of the Political affairs between 1927-37.

Translated by Q.A. Kabir

Urdu translation

لالہ و گل (عوام الناس) میرا رنگ و بو اختیار نہیں کرتے؛ میری آرزو میرے سینے ہی میں ختم ہو کے رہ گئی ہے۔میرا غم پنہاں الفاظ میں نہیں سماتا؛ اگر سما بھی سکے تو کیا کہوں اور کے سے کہوں۔